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- Title
The integration of local chromatic motion signals is sensitive to contrast polarity.
- Authors
WUERGER, SOPHIE M.; RUPPERTSBERG, ALEXA; MALEK, STEPHANIE; BERTAMINI, MARCO; MARTINOVIC, JASNA
- Abstract
Global motion integration mechanisms can utilize signals defined by purely chromatic information. Is global motion integration sensitive to the polarity of such color signals? To answer this question, we employed isoluminant random dot kinematograms (RDKs) that contain a single chromatic contrast polarity or two different polarities. Single-polarity RDKs consisted of local motion signals with either a positive or a negative S or L–M component, while in the different-polarity RDKs, half the dots had a positive S or L–M component, and the other half had a negative S or L–M component. In all RDKs, the polarity and the motion direction of the local signals were uncorrelated. Observers discriminated between 50% coherent motion and random motion, and contrast thresholds were obtained for 81% correct responses. Contrast thresholds were obtained for three different dot densities (50, 100, and 200 dots). We report two main findings: (1) dependence on dot density is similar for both contrast polarities (+S vs. −S, +LM vs. −LM) but slightly steeper for S in comparison to LM and (2) thresholds for different-polarity RDKs are significantly higher than for single-polarity RDKs, which is inconsistent with a polarity-blind integration mechanism. We conclude that early motion integration mechanisms are sensitive to the polarity of the local motion signals and do not automatically integrate information across different polarities.
- Subjects
COLOR vision; MOTION; VISUAL perception; SENSES; HUMAN information processing; VISUAL learning; THRESHOLD (Perception)
- Publication
Visual Neuroscience, 2011, Vol 28, Issue 3, p239
- ISSN
0952-5238
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0952523811000058